Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Granite 4.2 3B?

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Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Granite 4.2 3B?: Across 6 shared benchmarks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on 5 and Granite 4.2 3B on 1. The widest gap is LiveCodeBench v6, where Granite 4.2 3B scores 69.7 against 37.2.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Granite 4.2 3B

Across 6 shared benchmarks, Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on 5 and Granite 4.2 3B on 1. The widest gap is LiveCodeBench v6, where Granite 4.2 3B scores 69.7 against 37.2.

AnthropicvsIBM6 shared benchmarks5–1 head-to-head

Benchmark	Claude 3.5 Sonnet	Granite 4.2 3B
GPQA Diamond	67.2	54.8
LiveCodeBench v6	37.2	69.7
MMLU-Pro	78	67.8
RULER 128K	93.8	55.3
RULER 64K	95.2	67.5
scicode	36.6	24.1

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.